What a Week !!!!

First of all... These people are nuts. Why do I say this? Well, on Saturday the second team (the team I coach) played. This does not sound like anything out of the ordinary, but for me it was. The weather was bad.  It rained the entire day. It was not just a light rain ,but a nice, steady, even at some points pouring rain. It was absurd. If it was America the games would have been cancelled before I even got out of bed. I also got hit in the rib from an overthrown ball. So as you can see this was not my favorite day of the trip...On a lighter note, Lisa made me steak and mashed potatoes when I got home. Food cures everything.

On Sunday, we were finally suppose to play after a week off. I really enjoy playing here and I was super excited to get on the field again. We got to the field early in order to fix the dirt up from the rainy hell on Saturday. Kid you not, as soon as we were finished preparing the field it started to rain. It rained hard, very hard and even threw in some hail. Just for me I guess. After awhile it stopped raining so we fixed the field again. Then it rained...again. The rain stopped and finally there was blue skies so we started to warm up. Ten minutes into the warm up it started to rain again! Of course no decision was made until 20 minutes after game time. These people are nuts! I went back home, soaked to the bone once again. I took a shower and went into the sauna that is in my bathroom with Mascha. We had a typical Russian evening. Sauna, Russian music, and food. It made my day better.....

Sorry for the confusion but I am going to back track to Wednesday the 15th. 

On Wednesday, I went to the mountains with Mascha, Franky, Julia (a girl on the second team and a family friend of the Stoeckels), her parents Hazi and Gitty, and another friend, Ron. Franky referred to these mountains as the pre-Alps but I cant remember the exact name. Anyway, we started our day by taking the 8:20 train from Gronsdorf to Central Station. From here, we took the train to the mountains at 9:00. Hazi, who is the spitting image of Robert Plant, told me that the trip would be exactly 1 hour and 3 minutes. All of their friends love to joke around so it is quite a fun atmosphere to be a part of.  When we got to the little mountain town we stopped for ice cream :-) before our journey.  Then, it began. For two hours we went on a path that was basically straight up hill. We stopped after the two hours to eat and drink. After that we continued. It was so beautiful :-) words cannot describe it so I posted some pictures here. 

   After another forty minutes we stopped at this beautiful restaurant in the mountains. I had Liver Cheese. Don't worry it was not liver that was just the translation. Everyone got a kick out of that. We continued on to our final destination, the lake. It was amazing!!!!  We caught the ferry over to the other side and jumped on the train back to Munich. 

After we got back to the house we quickly showered and went to Hazi and Bitty's house (a short bike ride away). We had some really good food. Hazi also showed me a video of him and his band. Apparently they were very popular in Germany! After dinner we went to the park to see the red moon that North America could not see :-) haha. 

What a week.